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Car sharing

Looking back at 2011, one the biggest areas of change has been sharing cars (sharing the ownership of cars rather than the equally important lift sharing). Cars represent a huge opportunity for sharing because of the number of very expensive assets which spend the vast proportion of their time unused. Shared ownership of cars [...]

The Joy of Car Share

This video about car sharing was the winner of the Liftshare member video competition - enjoy!

See yours2share for more information about car sharing, car shared ownership and lift sharing.

Car clouds

Daimler (Mercedes Benz), a German car manufacturer is launching a liftsharing pilot  in Ulm, Germany.  In 2008, Daimler and Peugoet started a pilot carsharing scheme again in Germany, the first car manufacturer to offer a car share service.  The new liftsharing operation called car2gether is the first time a car manufacturer has offered a ridesharing service.

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Sharing cars

I haven’t spent as much time as I’d like on car shared ownership over the last couple of months, but these two snippets arrived in my inbox together today.  First of all a great ad for half, third or quarter shares of a Lotus Esprit V8 and/or Lamborghini Countach Replica Share, it sounds like someone [...]

Car clubs

I’ve added a new page to yours2share explaining the various types of car clubs and all the associated terminology: fractional ownership, joint ownership, shared ownership, car share, liftshare etc etc.

I’m glad that the major managed car clubs such as City Car Club are starting to become more mainstream.  But I’m keen to ensure people [...]